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Monday, January 12

Introduction to course

 

 

Wednesday, January 14

Chapter 1

The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, and Israel

Hause pp. 1-22.

Tierney pp. 3-29.

Web The Enuma Elish

The Story of the Flood

Genesis 6-9

Accounts of the Campaign of Sennacherib 701 BC

 

Friday, January 16

Chapter 1

Continued

Web The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep

 

Monday, January 19

Chapter 1

Continued

Web

II Kings 22:1-23:29

Ezekiel 23

Ruth 1 (compare with Deuteronomy 23:1-6 and Nehemiah 13:1-3)

Isaiah 45

 

Wednesday, January 21

Chapter 1

Continued

 

 

Friday, January 23

Chapter 1

Continued

 

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Monday, January 26

Chapter 2

Ancient Greece to the End of the Peloponnesian War

Hause pp. 23-59.

Tierney pp. 31-91.

Web Homer-Illiad Books I and XXII

QUIZ I

(Chapter 1)

Wednesday, January 28

Chapter 2

Continued

Web

Aristotle-The Polis
Pericles-Funeral Oration
Thucydides-The Melian Dialogue

 

Friday, January 30

Chapter 2

Continued

Web

Sophocles-Oedipus the King

 

Monday, February 2

Chapter 3

Greek Culture and Its Hellenistic Diffusion

Tierney pp. 93-101.

Web Aristotle-The Poetics

 

Wednesday, February 4

Chapter 3

Continued

Web

Alexander-Speech to Soldiers
Epicurus-Principle Doctrines

Cleanthes-Prayer to Zeus

PAPER TOPIC DUE

Friday, February 6

Chapter 3

Continued

 

 

Monday, February 9

Chapter 4

Rise of Roman Republic

Hause pp. 60-99.

Tierney pp. 101-110.

Web Quintus Cicero-The Roman Candidate
Extra-Slave Revolt Accounts
(Also of interest: Slavery in
Roman Republic)

QUIZ II

(Chapter 2-3)

Wednesday, February 11

Chapter 5

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome

Tierney pp. 111-123.

Web Strabo-The Grandeur of Rome
Juvenal-Satire III: On the City of
Rome

 

Friday, February 13

Chapters 4 and 5

Continued

 

 

Monday, February 16

Chapter 6

Origins of Christianity and the Decline of the Roman Empire

Hause pp. 100-118.

Tierney pp. 125-153.

Web Matthew 5-7
Hebrews
5

QUIZ III

(Chapter 4-5)

Wednesday, February 18

Chapter 6

Continued

Web Diocletian and Constantine-Efforts to Stabilize the Economy

and The Passion of Perpetua

BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

SEE MLA FOR STYLE

Friday, February 20

Chapter 6

Continued

 

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Monday, February 23

Chapter 7

Rome’s Successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West

Hause pp. 119-136.

Tierney pp. 155-184.

Web Liudprand of Cremona-Embassy to Constantinople

QUIZ IV

(Chapter 6)

Wednesday, February 25

NO CLASS MEETING: SFC WALK-A-THON

Friday, February 27

Chapter 7

Continued

Web

Qu'ran-Surahs 1 and 47
Ibn Fadlan-Risala Gregory of
Tours-The Conversion of Clovis

QUIZ V

(Chapter 7)

Monday, March 1

NO CLASS MEETING: SPRING BREAK

Wednesday, March 3

NO CLASS MEETING: SPRING BREAK

Friday, March 5

NO CLASS MEETING: SPRING BREAK

Monday, March 8

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Bring examination book or buy one from instructor.

Wednesday, March 10

Chapter 8

The Beginnings of the Feudal Age

Hause pp. 137-156.

Tierney pp. 187-213.

Web Einhard-Life of Charlemagne

Frederick II-Statute in Favor of the Princes
Three Summonses to the Parliament of 1295

Urban II-Speech at Clermont

 

Friday, March 12

NO CLASS MEETING: UNPRECEDENTED PRAISE

Monday, March 15

Chapter 9

Medieval Religion and Thought

Hause pp. 157-175.

Tierney pp. 215-248.

Web Adelard of Bath- The Impact of Muslim Science

QUIZ VI

(Chapter 8)

Wednesday, March 17

Chapter 10

Economic Development and Urban Growth in the High Middle Ages

Hause pp. 176-213.

Tierney pp. 251-284.

QUIZ VII

(Chapter 9)

Friday, March 19

Chapter 11

Material and Social Life in the Middle Ages

Web Jean de Venette-The Plague in Paris
Chaucer-General Prologue and Wife of Bath

 

Monday, March 22

Chapters 10 and 11

Continued

 

 

Wednesday, March 24

Chapter 12

Plague, War, and Social Change in the “Long” Fourteenth Century

Hause pp. 214-252.

QUIZ VIII

(Chapter 10-11)

Friday, March 26

Chapter 13

The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change

Tierney pp. 287-319.

 

Monday, March 29

Chapters 12 and 13

Continued

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Petrarch-Letter to Posterity
Machiavelli-The Prince

RESEARCH PAPER DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS

Wednesday, March 31

Chapter 14

The Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century

Hause pp. 253-271.

Tierney pp. 321-352.

QUIZ IX

(Chapter 12-13)

Friday, April 2

Chapter 14

Continued

Web

Martin Luther-On the Freedom of a Christian

 

Monday, April 5

Chapter 14

Continued

Web

Council of Trent-Decree on Justification  
Council of Trent-Decree on Saints and Images

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Wednesday, April 7

Chapter 15

Overseas Conquest and Religious War to 1648

Hause pp. 272-290.

Tierney pp. 355-365.

QUIZ X

(Chapter 14)

Friday, April 9

NO CLASS MEETING: EASTER BREAK

Monday, April 12

NO CLASS MEETING: EASTER BREAK

Wednesday, April 14

Chapter 15

Continued

Web

John of Monte Corvino-Report from China
Christopher Columbus-Letter to King and Queen of
Spain

 

Friday, April 16

Chapter 16

Preindustrial Europe: Science, the Economy, and Political Reorganization

Hause pp. 291-308.

Tierney pp. 365-380.

Web

Domat-On Divine Right 

Locke-Second Treatise on Government

Galileo-Letter to Grand Duchess of Tuscany

QUIZ XI

(Chapter 15)

Monday, April 19

Chapter 16

Continued

 

 

Wednesday, April 21

Chapter 17

The Social and Economic Structure of the Old Regime

Hause pp. 309-327.

Tierney pp. 383-412.

Web Rabelais-Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Use of a Goose

QUIZ XII

(Chapter 16)

Friday, April 23

Chapter 17

Continued

 

 

Monday, April 26

Chapter 18

Daily Life in the Old Regime

Hause pp. 328-348.

Tierney pp. 415-444.

QUIZ XIII

(Chapter 17)

Wednesday, April 28

NO CLASS MEETING: SCHOOL TRIP

Friday, April 30

General Review and Conclusion

 

QUIZ XIV

(Chapter 18)

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Monday, May 3

FINAL EXAMINATION

Bring examination book or buy one from instructor.

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Wednesday, May 5

LAST DAY OF FINALS

Thursday, May 6

END OF YEAR BANQUET

Saturday, May 8

GRADUATION—10:00 AM